Being Arkansas Football Fans Must Be Life of Misery

Originally posted on Arkansas Razorbacks on SI
By Kent Smith | Last updated Sep 7, 2024 5:53 PM ET

STILLWATER, Okla. — Being an Arkansas fan must be a miserable existence. No matter how well things go, there's always the sinking feeling that whatever can go wrong will go wrong and then it plays out almost without fail.

The Razorbacks clearly had the better team Saturday in Stillwater, but in true Arkansas fashion, the Hogs went about their business of going out of their way to figure out a way to lose and were successful in double-overtime, falling 39-31 to Oklahoma State. Miscue, after miscue, after miscue kept the Arkansas tradition of losing one-score games alive for yet another season.

The Hogs stared down a chance to head into halftime up 28-0 when quarterback Taylen Green found himself under pressure on third down at the OSU 29. Rather than eat the ball and pin Oklahoma State in the shadow of its end zone against a defense that had so far dominated the Cowboys, he tried to throw the ball.

It fluttered through the air and into the hands of Kale Smith who returned it for a 73-yard touchdown. The Hogs responded by going 75 yards in seven plays to head into the half up 21-7, but there wasn't a Razorback fan in the country who didn't know it would come back to haunt them.

What they didn't realize is there would be so many mistakes that the loss really can't be attributed to the interception. There is literally a long list of ways Arkansas handed an inferior team the win.

It took all of that to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. What should have been a blowout and an announcement of a new era of Razorbacks football was just a painful reminder for its fans about how cursed the program is.

Even when the Hogs' talent is dramatically better than the opponent, Arkansas is gonna Arkansas. That's just the way it is, and Razorbacks fans will just have to continue to accept that.

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This article first appeared on Arkansas Razorbacks on SI and was syndicated with permission.

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